Verse 15

If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your people.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 2:24 : 24 No, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the LORD’s people is not good.
• Ps 14:5 : 5 They are absolutely terrified, for God defends the godly.
• Ps 22:30 : 30 A whole generation will serve him; they will tell the next generation about the Lord.
• Ps 24:6 : 6 Such purity characterizes the people who seek his favor, Jacob’s descendants, who pray to him.(Selah)
• Mal 2:8 : 8 You, however, have turned from the way. You have caused many to violate the law; you have corrupted the covenant with Levi,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
• Matt 18:6-7 : 6 “But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea. 7 Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.
• Rom 14:15 : 15 For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.
• Rom 14:21 : 21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
• 1 Cor 8:11-13 : 11 So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed. 12 If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.